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Choice of Form: Two Legal Seminars As Social Media

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Professor Daniel Jutras’ classes begin with him and/or students covering some current events relating to the seminar’s topic. We pause for 10 minutes, and when we return, the class asks questions or makes comments, to which Professor Jutras responds. I see this seminar as a blog. I see this seminar as a forum.

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Social Media for Non-Profits: How One Small Charity Makes it Work

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Avi gets excited at the prospect, as this will be a first computer class for every student in the room. Using social media, primarily Twitter, to garner votes for the project, in addition to a mountain of email and phone outreach, Epic Change won the contest and will be building the lab at Shepherds Junior School in Tanzania.

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Andrew Sutherland, 17 Year Old Creator of Quizlet ยป Techipedia.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I remember taking classes, buying flashcards , and doing whatever it took to have a decent understanding of large words to score well on the SAT. Studying my SAT words (believe it or not, vocabulary is not one of my strong suits) is not as much a distant memory as it is for others who have been out of high school for 8 years.

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7 Traits of Highly Effective Viral Videos

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Randy Pausch , a former lecturer at Carnegie Mellon, inspired not only students in his class but the world in his last ever speech before he passed away from pancreatic cancer. Inspiring Want to watch a video that’s nothing like the above but motivates you to do your best? Inspiring videos, too, can be viral.

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Social Media Marketing Without Brand Awareness Can Kill You.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

You can’t take your first driving class on the highway without learning how to drive on local streets beforehand. There were far more important issues that needed to be dealt with first. You can’t throw a kitten in a cage full of tigers without getting hurt. Accelerated by MaxCDN Content Delivery Network.

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The Nightmare Public Relations Professional and How to Stop Him

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

But what I’m also learning is that there exists the same class system within social media as with all media. Tagged as: blogger outreach , Blogging , pr , press releases , public relations , spam { 5 trackbacks } Blogger Relations is a Two-Way Street | Brian Solis - PR 2.0 So I post stuff, email, invite, tweet, RT, FF.

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Twitter versus Plurk: Not Even in the Same League

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The only similarity is a 140 character limit for posts — so Plurk is essentially a microblogging platform. Plurk: Real Nested Conversations Brought to the Microblogging Platform A few days ago, I noticed via Twitter search tool Summize that Aaron Brazell had been talking about me on his Twitter stream. But PLURK? I LOVE PLURK!

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